ACT, community colleges to announce partnership

Tuesday, April 23, 2013 11:53 AM

Iowa's 15 community colleges and
ACT Inc. will announce on Thursday a partnership to improve the state's
advanced manufacturing work force, officials said in a release Tuesday. The
Iowa City-based testing company will partner in an initiative to
"strengthen the talent pipeline of current and future advanced
manufacturing workers across the state," the community colleges said.
Iowa's community colleges are already part of a consortium to build training capacity
in advanced manufacturing programs to address the "skills gap" in
demand for both basic and high-skilled tech workers in the manufacturing
industry.